#or interesting fan theory

[thebestusernamepossible]

Really interesting phenomena in some fandoms where they will throw out ‘non canon’ stuff in an attempt get back to source material, ignoring the source of the ‘headcanon’.

Things like ‘Sans has 1HP’, sometimes get thrown out and labelled as fanon. When the REASON it’s a headcanon is because in the files of the game he has 1HP. (And because it fits his general thing (tm), it’s adds to the trolling).

Im using Undertale as an example but it happens elsewhere.

This is like a sibling of the ‘tries so hard to not be the common fanon version they roll back to an equally fanon logical opposite of that’

Not complaining really, I just think the way fandoms do things and how characters distort is really interesting.

[yagothefruitypie]

So, I remember someone reacting to avm ep. 33 and saying something about yellow's loud snoring.

And I mean

Should we be surprised?

[asmogorna]

paige + gay boy

[claraoswalds]

DOCTOR WHO (2005-)

[srslylini]

"In the pursuit of great we failed to do good" is a quote that, in my opinion, transcends the scene it was said in

it's applicable in almost every scene/part in the show. Vander wanted greatness and failed to do good, he noticed and stopped, which is also what caused the fall out with Silco.

The obvious with Jayce and Viktor, of course

but the council too. The entire council fails to do good but does "great" things despite that. Decisions that ruin lives, that destroy people and communities. In their pursuit of great they left people behind and are now suffering the consequences because they failed to do good. They are the city of progress with literal bodies in the basement.

The same can actually be said about Caitlyn, too. She is trying so hard to do great, to do everything to succeed she fails to see the consequences and she also fails to do good. And Vi followed her.

Well and Heimerdinger is just... like he just failed to do great and good, but I guess at least he is trying now? lmao, no but seriously I think it's terribly overlooked that he IS in fact trying now. Doesn't erase all the years of neglect and not caring but it's a beginning.

[another-goblin]

Dr. Ratio in Amphoreus at home:

I'm not sure exactly, but I think this guy is Nikador's Reason he discarded before going crazy, so it makes sense for him to talk about "eradicating foolishness" and "teaching lessons." But where did the last part come from? Why is it so similar to Ratio's "It is only in moments of solitude and despair, when help is absent, that fools grasp how to pick themselves up"?

Even if Dr. Ratio turns out to be from Amphoreus, I doubt he would have anything to do with Nikador.

And uplifting ordinary humans through strife is not exactly what I expected from Nikador. Although it makes sense for pre-madness Nikador, I guess?

Upd. Btw Gnaeus is a Latin name so Ratio wouldn't be out of place there either. Not all names there are Greek.

[kald-dal-write]

really do think why SOTR came across as disappointing following TBOSAS or even Mockingjay was that it really wasn't that ambitious/risky of a story

[acearchivist359]

mag 142 // tmagp 23

damn eye avatars and their excessive eyes

[deepred00]

NAME IMPORTANCE IN SANDERS SIDES

Guysssss, I just realised something and it might have already been talked about but I couldn't find anything so I'm writing it now. So, we all know about the name reveals in Sanders Sides, their meanings and their importance, but I was casually watching through the series again when in Selfishness VS Selflessness I realised something that I have been noticing before but not knowing why. The moment Deceit, Janus, talks to Anxiety, Virgil, and brings up Virgil's reluctance to share his name. And that scene has always stood out to me in someway but now I finally realised why. Because Janus lied. It's not something new, he's literally Deceit, BUT it's what he's lying about that is important.

Janus: "Oh, so you've never been reluctant to share anything with the group then?"

Virgil: "Don't"

Janus: "What? I just meant your name"

Virgil: "DON'T!"

JANUS IS LYING YET BEING TRUTHFUL ABOUT HIS RESPONSE!!! THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO LIE, TO ALSO BE TRUTHFUL!

We may think, even assume, that Janus is talking about Virgil not telling his name to Thomas for a long time before finally revealing his name to be Virgil. BUT Virgil's reaction is too emotional, too strong, too desperate to be only about that. It's more like he's pleading Janus not to reveal something. And it would be ignorant not to include the fact that there's A LOT of theories about when Virgil was a "dark side" he was not Anxiety but Paranoia.

And now to the point I wanted to talk about. Names, their meanings and their importance. So let me list their names in chronological order they were revealed so you can see them clearly.

Logan

Roman

Patton

Virgil

Remus

Janus

And of course the orange side we do not know of yet. But look closely at the list of names. And do you remember what Patton said when Virgil revealed his name? "Huh, but that doesn't end with a -N"

And now look at the "dark sides" and their names. They end with -US. Do you see the the name that doesn't really fit in?

VIRGIL

AND I BELIEVE THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S NOT HIS "REAL" OR "TRUE" NAME BUT CHOSEN NAME!! Virgil means protector, that is what Virgil want to be for Thomas! Virgil doesn't want to be Paranoia, he doesn't want to be the bad guy. HE WANTS TO BE A PROTECTOR! And that is why he chose that name!

AND THAT'S NOT ALL!

Let's look at the name etymology here too!!

For the "Good sides" their names correspond with Aristotle's ingredients for persuasion, albeit Roman's name is not visibly linked to its correspondence like the others.

Logan - Logos

Roman - Ethos (Roman being the side with charm and scene presence)

Patton - Pathos

And now for the "Dark sides" we know of. Their names are derived from roman mythology.

Remus - Twin brother of Romulus, the founder of Rome which corresponds Remus being Roman's twin, since Roman's name is basically taken from the ROMAN EMPIRE as well as Romance and all. Plus it also places great significance that Remus is only an offshot of Roman, without Roman, Remus would not exist and therefore his name corresponds to "the twin brother of the great mythological founder of ROME"

Janus - God of doorways, duality, gates, passages, beginnings and endings, always depicted as two-faced. Two-faced=Deceitful

AND WHAT ABOUT VIRGIL'S NAME? DOES HIS NAME FIT INTO THESE CATEGORIES? NO! VIRGIL IS NOT FROM ROMAN MYTHOLOGY NOR ARISTOTLE'S PERSUASION! IT'S A SIMPLE ROMAN NAME, THE MOST WE CAN FIND IS THAT AN ANCIENT ROMAN POET HAD THE NAME VIRGIL. WHICH IN ALL HONESTY FITS ROMAN SANDERS MORE THAN VIRGIL. AND I BELIEVE IT'S BECAUSE DESPITE EVERYTHING VIRGIL WANTS TO KINDA BE LIKE ROMAN TO THOMAS, HIS HERO. ROMAN IS THOMAS' HERO AND VIRGIL WANTS TO BE THOMAS' PROTECTOR, HIS HERO!

SO IN CONCLUSION... I think Virgil's name is not the name he had before or his "true" name. It is his chosen name and that is what he wants to be. That's why it's different from the other sides' names. That's why Virgil has been so sensitive when Janus brought up his name and why Virgil has been sensitive about being called paranoid. Because that's basically someone he has been and not someone he wants to be. It's almost like being called by his dead-name. And this just makes me want to hug Virgil even more, feed him spider-shaped cookies, give him some calming tea and just.. be there

[luniviravosshipper]

Actually feels like I'm losing my mind sometimes 'cause the TDP fandom is the only fandom where it feels like people are hardly at all fawning over the well curated selection of gay DILFs in the series.

Like this is one of the few children's media I know that has canonical mpreg (that's somehow done in a way that's also treated with just as much seriousness as it's treated comedically) and... no one cares? I mean, maybe that wasn't shocking to the fandom at the time and of course a ton of other shit has happened that's gone beyond that (like the cannibalism maybe), but seriously. Surely that should attract people to this show, right?

I mean, tragic old man yaoi became so popular in 2024, I saw everyone talking about it all throughout the year on Tumblr. And no one looked into exploring viravos more through that? Like, what? The way the ship so perfectly aligned with people's ideals for that trope and even hit points that I felt like some people said the most popular ships of that trope weren't able to fit... And if anything it seems like viravos has died down since mid 2024 (around when season 6 came out and when this trope seemed to be peaking in popularity because of the other media coming out at the time that used it) within the show's own fanbase. And it used to be the second most popular ship at that too.

And again, it's one thing for none of these characters or ships to be the main appeal for the fanbase itself... But somehow none of these things draw other people in? That's the crazy part to me. That's what's mind boggling.

[goldensunset]

i feel insane bc i have a lot of fun with taking things and making them darker and edgier but like there are rules to it. there are specific things i like and don’t like. it’s compelling when you take parts of the original that are only implied or lightly touched upon, yet are very much present and important, and expand on those. that’s transformative and delicious and very much called for. it’s boring and tacky when you dump a bunch of blood and death and evil onto something that was perfectly innocent and straightforward and didn’t need to be anything else especially if the original thing didn’t even have much of a narrative so to speak

[greenleaf4stuff]

What if Adar had been 'created' not just to help make the uruk, but to keep the uruk alive?

He’s very protective of them, to the point of killing Sauron, but his involvement also meant the uruk were organised and a lethal force even without a master to guide them. They might have been defeated - wiped out, even - by the time Sauron came back, if not for him guiding them and making them all work together as a united force.

What if Morgoth and Sauron chose him - and molded him - so he would feel compelled to keep the uruk alive at any cost, so that Sauron and/or Morgoth always would have an army they could fall back on, even after a temporary defeat?

(Obviously, this is just speculation and unlikely that this was their ultimate goal, considering they likely didn’t think they’d ever get defeated. But Adar works surprisingly well as a ‚plan b‘, an additional safety measure – with them weaponizing his desire for children and his love for the uruk to their own ends, only to dispose of him when he was no longer useful or began to pose a threat to them.)

(...Choo choo to all aboard the Pain Train)

[tech-obssessed-shark]

First attempt at drawing Stella Helluva Boss

[sunny-m00n]

Well good morning to you too I guess-

like right off the bat, good to see you invested I guess?

[drawingoddessy]

ISTG IF THAT FAN VILLAIN THEORY IS RIGHT

I AM GOING TO BE DEVASTATED AND MAD

[cursedwithcaution]

do you think young Belos (kid belos) was good or bad? Random question but I was thinking about that, because I drew a picture of kid pip once and someone comment like "no, I don't think he was good and innocent when he was a kid. I think he was always bad". Just curious about your take hahaha since I think I've never saw someone so much evil as your Belos version honestly

Fascinating question!

First of all, I don’t believe children can be evil. Not to be too real world about it, but the concept that children are capable of not only doing evil but actually being evil is harmful and there are some people (adults) who use that ideology as an excuse to harm children.

From a storytelling perspective? No, I don’t think Kid Belos/Philip was evil. Not only because of my personal opinions on children generally, but because of the storytelling of the Owl House itself.

Luz wasn’t born a hero. Philip wasn’t born a villain. This is like, one of the major themes of the series. People make choices! Belos chose, time after time, to do bad things that hurt people because it benefitted him and his agenda. His choices were evil and he never expressed genuine regret or willingness to change. Luz did her best to make choices that would help people, and sometimes she screwed up, but she learned from her mistakes, changed, and grew as a person.

This is like, the whole point of Watching and Dreaming and the Collector’s change to be a better person. Luz and King and Eda could see that the Collector was a CHILD. An extremely powerful child who did things that hurt people, but also a child who was lonely and didn’t understand what they were doing.

side note: regardless of someone’s opinion on the matter (which is subjective and cannot be objective because there were never scenes of Philip as a child so there’s no “correct” answer and even this is just my interpretation based on themes and personal opinion), commenting that on someone’s art?? that they just shared??? for fun and for free????? preposterous. uncouth. impolite.